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Welcome to Day 1595 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Bible Study \u2013 Strong Numbers and Interlinear Tools \u2013 Meditation MondayWelcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps! Wisdom is the final frontier in gaining true knowledge. Our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, seek out discernment and insights, and boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend; this is Gramps; thanks for coming along on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy Today is Day 1595 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday. Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy. For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection. You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, Meditation includes reading and reflecting on God\u2019s Word and in prayer. It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body. As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.

We are continuing our series this week on Meditation Monday as we focus on Mastering Bible Study through a series of brief insights from Hebrew Scholar, Dr. Michael S. Heiser. Our current insights are focusing on practical tools for Bible study. Today let us meditate on:
Bible Study \u2013 Strong Numbers and Interlinear Tools\xb7 Insight Sixty-Seven: Learn About Strong\u2019s Numbers and Their Use
It wasn\u2019t until I was in college that I started to be more serious in my Bible Study. I didn\u2019t know how to do that, but through my courses, I discovered a tool called Strong\u2019s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. That resource took me to a new level.
Strong\u2019s Concordance was the creation of Dr. James Strong (1822-1894), an American biblical scholar. Strong was a professor of biblical literature at Troy University in New York (1858- 1861) and Drew Theological Seminary (1868-1894) in New Jersey. He first published his now-famous Concordance in 1890.
What exactly is a concordance? In simplest terms, it is an alphabetical listing of every word in an English translation along with a verse reference for that word. In the case of Strong\u2019s Concordance, the version he used was the King James Version. For example, you could use Strong\u2019s Concordance to look up the English word \u201clove\u201d and quickly see which verses have \u201clove\u201d in the Bible.
Strong\u2019s Concordance is more than a list, though. Strong, and a staff of over a hundred people who helped create the concordance, also created a numbering system for the Hebrew and Greek words behind the English translation. Using the word \u201clove\u201d again as our example, Strong\u2019s numbering system informs us that the Hebrew verb most often translated love\u2019 was assigned tire number 157. The Greek word most commonly translated as \u201clove\u201d received the number 26. These numbers were used to create a dictionary in the back of the Concordance. After finding the number, which appears sequentially, you will find a short definition that Strong and his assistants created for the Hebrew or Greek word corresponding to that number. Therefore, Strong\u2019s Concordance has an index of every word of the Bible in its original language.

Strong\u2019s numbering system has proved so popular and enduring that many biblical reference tools for helping English readers study Hebrew and Greek word meanings have adopted the system. Strong\u2019s Concordance is still in print, as are updated systems like the GK numbers. But in today\u2019s world of personal computers, print concordances have been superseded by digital versions and more powerful tools. Whether you use books or a computer, learning about concordance numbers can move you in a new direction for Bible study.
\xb7 Insight Sixty-Eight: Learn About Interlinear BiblesInterlinear Bibles are one category of original...